It’s highly encouraging to read of a shift to taking practical, more affordable steps to incrementally improve our defenses against destructive natural forces.
A U.S. Forest Service firefighter monitors backfire during the Park fire in Tehama County's Mill Creek area of California on Aug. 7, 2024. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.